| 4.5 superb |
| Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties We Don't Have Each Other |
| Agoraphobic Nosebleed/Converge The Poacher Diaries |
| American Football American Football |
| American Football American Football (LP3) |
| Andy Hull Born of You (Demos: 2008-2010) |
| Gorgeous. A big step up from the other set of demos he released. Where those mostly felt like shells of future MO songs, these stand on their own. |
| Armand Hammer We Buy Diabetic Test Strips |
| Artificial Brain Artificial Brain |
| As the Sun Sets 7744 |
| Bad Books III |
| Big|Brave Vital |
| Big|Brave nature morte |
| Bruce Springsteen Nebraska |
| BRUIT The Machine Is Burning... |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated Side B |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion |
| Caspian Dust and Disquiet |
| Chat Pile God's Country |
| Circa Survive A Dream About Death |
| I had grown very tired of Post Blue Sky Noise Circa, while the songs were technically interesting it felt like the band was just putting out post hardcore for the sake of pleasing fans. This new direction feels fresh and authentic in a very pleasing way. |
| City of Caterpillar Driving Spain Up A Wall |
| clipping. There Existed an Addiction to Blood |
| Cloakroom Dissolution Wave |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Converge The Dusk in Us |
| Copeland Blushing |
| Totally blown away by how gorgeous this is. Only more listens will tell if my rating grows or shrinks, but a 4 seems appropriate at the moment. |
| Crowbar Sonic Excess in Its Purest Form |
| Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear |
| Cursive The Ugly Organ |
| Cursive Domestica |
| Cursive Burst and Bloom |
| Dance Gavin Dance Happiness |
| Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition |
| Dead Swords Enders |
| I really really like this. Hard to believe this dude used to be in the gaslight anthem. |
| Deafheaven 10 Years Gone |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah |
| Deafheaven Infinite Granite |
| Deftones Ohms |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats Unlocked |
| Emery The Weak's End |
| Emery While Broken Hearts Prevail |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou May Our Chambers Be Full |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou The Helm of Sorrow |
| END (USA-NJ) From the Unforgiving Arms of God |
| Envy The Fallen Crimson |
| Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown |
| Every Time I Die Low Teens |
| Every Time I Die Radical |
| Fiddlehead Between the Richness |
| Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters |
| Frail Body A Brief Memoriam |
| I love this. Avoids a lot of the cliches of modern screamo and manages to feel fresh. |
| Full of Hell Coagulated Bliss |
| Funeral Diner The Underdark |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence |
| God Is an Astronaut Epitaph |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! |
| Gospel The Loser |
| Great Falls Funny What Survives |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness |
| Iron Chic You Can't Stay Here |
| Ithaca The Language of Injury |
| Jason Isbell Reunions |
| Jason Isbell Southeastern |
| Jeff Rosenstock Thanks, Sorry! |
| Jeromes Dream The Gray In Between |
| JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown Scaring the Hoes |
| King Woman Celestial Blues |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom... (10th Anniversary) |
| Maybe I?m the only one, but I think this elevated a good album into a great one. |
| La Dispute Wildlife |
| La Dispute Rooms of the House |
| La Dispute Panorama |
| Mark Kozelek & Jimmy Lavalle Perils from the Sea |
| mewithoutYou Pale Horses |
| mewithoutYou [untitled] e.p. |
| mewithoutYou Audiotree Live |
| Mizmor and Thou Myopia |
| Mount Eerie Now Only |
| Night Verses From the Gallery of Sleep |
| Nine Inch Nails Bad Witch |
| Norma Jean Wrongdoers |
| Norma Jean All Hail |
| I?ve been listening to this band for over a decade now and they somehow keep finding ways to stay relevant. I dig this as much as their last two; very impressed with their late stage career. |
| Nothing Dance On The Blacktop |
| O'Brother You and I |
| A new take on a sound that doesn?t feel like a departure from their roots. This thing is haunting and gorgeous. Tanner?s vocals sound the best that they ever have. |
| Old Man Gloom The Ape of God II |
| ostraca Disaster |
| pg.99 Document #8 |
| Pijn and Conjurer Curse These Metal Hands |
| Finally, fresh take on ?post metal?. Not for a second do we hear the tribal drums, brooding atmosphere, or classic ?build up to climax? moments made popular by Neurosis or Isis. Instead the listener is treated to colorful leads, bright atmosphere, and a sense of melody that never comes off as out of place despite its complete absence in the rest of the genre. |
| Pile All Fiction |
| Portrayal of Guilt We Are Always Alone |
| PUP The Dream Is Over |
| Pyrithe Monuments to Impermanence |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter SAVED! |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels |
| Senza Even a Worm Will Turn |
| Slint Spiderland |
| SOUL GLO " " |
| SOUL GLO Untitled EP |
| SOUL GLO The Nigga In Me Is Me |
| Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) |
| SUMAC What One Becomes |
| SUMAC Love In Shadow |
| SUMAC May You Be Held |
| I?ve had my copy a good two weeks now so I feel okay rating. Turner and co go much further down the improv / harsh noise rabbit hole and it feels much more cohesive than Love In Shadow, which had blatant stopping and starting points to those free passages. If this is your kind of thing it?s fantastic, I can see fans of more traditional heavy music being turned off by the longer passages of improv/ambience/noise. |
| Sun Kil Moon April |
| Thantifaxath Hive Mind Narcosis |
| The Appleseed Cast The Fleeting Light of Impermanence |
| The addition of synth really added a layer to their core sound. Chris also focuses on his upper register for the majority of the record and the results are a much more controlled and enjoyable vocal. Loving this more with every listen. |
| The Black Keys Brothers |
| The Black Queen Fever Daydream |
| The Body I have fought against it, But I can’t any longer |
| The Chariot One Wing |
| The Chariot Long Live |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer |
| The Human Abstract Digital Veil |
| The Menzingers After the Party |
| The Microphones Microphones in 2020 |
| The Mountain Goats All Hail West Texas |
| The National High Violet |
| The Smile Wall of Eyes |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Assorted Works |
| This is better than their last two full length LPs. I?d take it over anything accept Whenever, If Ever. |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever |
| Thou Rhea Sylvia |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
| Thrice Live At The House Of Blues |
| Tigers Jaw Tigers Jaw |
| Touche Amore Stage Four |
| Touche Amore Dead Horse X |
| Touche Amore Lament |
| Touche Amore/Pianos Become the Teeth Split |
| Trenches The Tide Will Swallow Us Whole |
| Turnstile Glow On |
| Tyler, the Creator IGOR |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) |
| We Lost the Sea The Quietest Place on Earth |
| Zao Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest |
| Zao Liberate Te Ex Inferis |
| Zao The Crimson Corridor |
| 4.0 excellent |
| A Swarm of the Sun The Woods |
| Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties Bittersweet |
| Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties Routine Maintenance |
| Abigail Williams Walk Beyond The Dark |
| AJJ Christmas Island |
| AJJ/Ghost Mice Andrew Jackson Jihad/Ghost Mice split |
| Alexis Marshall House of Lull. House of When |
| Amenra De Doorn |
| American Football American Football (LP2) |
| Andy Hull Who Is Your Humble? (Demos: 2006-2007) |
| Anna von Hausswolff All Thoughts Fly |
| Antarctigo Vespucci Love in the Time of E-Mail |
| As Cities Burn Son, I Loved You at Your Darkest |
| Ashenspire Hostile Architecture |
| Axis Show Your Greed |
| Baptists Beacon of Faith |
| Becoming The Archetype Celestial Completion |
| Better Oblivion Community Center Better Oblivion Community Center |
| Big Thief Two Hands |
| Black Midi Schlagenheim |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Brockhampton Iridescence |
| Brockhampton SATURATION III |
| Brockhampton SATURATION II |
| Brockhampton SATURATION |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion: Side B |
| Caspian On Circles |
| Circle Takes the Square Circle Takes the Square |
| clavus Maybe We're Not So Far Apart |
| clipping. CLPPNG |
| clipping. The Deep |
| clipping. Splendor and Misery |
| clipping. Chapter 319 |
| Clot Grief Tethers |
| Total ripper of an album. Lots of variation from song to song with strong performances throughout. |
| Converge No Heroes |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Converge Beautiful Ruin |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky |
| Converge When Forever Comes Crashing |
| Crosses Crosses |
| Cult Leader A Patient Man |
| Cult Leader Lightless Walk |
| Cult Leader Nothing for Us Here |
| Cursive Vitriola |
| This is the best thing they?ve done in a long time. Color me impressed. |
| Dance Gavin Dance Acceptance Speech 2.0 |
| It?s wild how much better this sounds vs. the original. Aside from Happiness this is probably my favorite thing they?ve done. |
| Danny Brown uknowhatimsayin¿ |
| Daughters Hell Songs |
| Daughters Canada Songs |
| David Bazan Strange Negotiations |
| Death Bells Standing at the Edge of the World |
| Death Cab for Cutie Asphalt Meadows |
| Denzel Curry TA13OO |
| Devin Shelton Life And Death |
| Downfall of Gaia Ethic of Radical Finitude |
| Drug Church CHEER |
| Duster Duster |
| Earl Sweatshirt Doris |
| Earl Sweatshirt Some Rap Songs |
| Earl Sweatshirt Feet of Clay |
| Earl Sweatshirt Sick! |
| Earl Sweatshirt I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside |
| Earl Sweatshirt and The Alchemist Voir Dire |
| Elizabeth Colour Wheel Nocebo |
| Emery Eve |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Marked for Death |
| END (USA-NJ) Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face |
| END (USA-NJ) The Sin of Human Frailty |
| Endon Mama |
| Envy Insomniac Doze |
| Envy Alnair in August |
| Foxing Draw Down the Moon |
| Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Bandana |
| Fucking Invincible I Hate Myself And Want You To Die |
| Excellent little record. Nothing ground breaking but incredibly enjoyable. |
| Fucking Invincible It'll Get Worse Before It Gets Better |
| Full of Hell Weeping Choir |
| This is what I?ve always wanted from them. It balances the noise, grind, dm influence, and experimentation of the past into one near perfectly executed little package. |
| Full of Hell Roots Of Earth Are Consuming My Home |
| Full of Hell Aurora Leaking From An Open Wound |
| Geology North |
| Glassjaw Material Control |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) |
| Greet Death Dixieland |
| Greg Puciato Child Soldier: Creator of God |
| I really like every song, but as a record this is kinda a mess. It could have been a really good grunge record and a separate record more in vein of the black queen. The lack of cohesion is keeping me from giving it a 4.5 but the songs themselves are excellent. |
| Hail the Sun Mental Knife |
| Hail the Sun New Age Filth |
| I really didn?t want to like this, and I was sure I wouldn?t. But dammit, this band just does *that* sound so much better than the hundreds of other bands that try to do it. |
| half/cut Salt an Atlas |
| Hawkboy King Folly |
| Hawkboy Hawkboy |
| Hayley Williams FLOWERS for VASES / descansos |
| Holy Fawn The Black Moon |
| Horrendous Idol |
| Huntsmen Mandala of Fear |
| This is a super fun take on post metal. The slight hints of Americana / county, especially in some of the clean vocal passages, adds a lot. Came for the the dope bass tone, stayed for the everything else. |
| IDLES Joy as an Act of Resistance |
| IDLES Crawler |
| IDYLLS Prayer for Terrene |
| ISIS Mosquito Control |
| ISIS The Red Sea |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant |
| Jaye Jayle No Trail and Other Unholy Paths |
| Jaye Jayle House Cricks and Other Excuses to Get Out |
| Jeff Rosenstock HELLMODE |
| Joliette Luz Devora |
| Joshua Fit For Battle To Bring Our Own End |
| Joyce Manor Cody |
| Junior Astronomers Dead Nostalgia |
| Kanye West ye |
| Keiji Haino and Sumac Even for Just the Briefest Moment |
| Kids See Ghosts Kids See Ghosts |
| Killer Mike Michael |
| King Woman Created in the Image of Suffering |
| Kurt Travis There's a Place I Want to Take You |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair |
| Laura Stevenson Cocksure |
| Leeched You Took The Sun When You Left |
| Leonard Cohen Thanks for the Dance |
| low before the breeze various raptures |
| Low before the breeze / Less Dead That Which Still Aches |
| Malevich Only the Flies |
| Mamaleek Out of Time |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math |
| Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child |
| Mark Kozelek and Petra Haden Joey Always Smiled |
| The same babble we?ve been hearing for years now, but somehow just a little more charming. Hard agree that the War on Drugs set up is worth the album alone. |
| Mat Kerekes Ruby |
| I was very surprised by how good this was. As You Please was the first Citizen record that I liked even a little, so I went into this not knowing what to expect. Very happy that I checked it out. |
| Mesa Verde The Old Road |
| meth. I Love You |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life |
| mewithoutYou I Never Said That I Was Brave |
| mewithoutYou Other Stories |
| Minors Abject Bodies |
| Mount Eerie Lost Wisdom, Pt. 2 |
| Mouth Of The Architect Quietly |
| Murder by Death The Other Shore |
| Another great MBD album, the opening and closing tracks both stood out as the leaders, but not a bad track on this. |
| Murder by Death Lonesome Holiday |
| As far as Christmas records go, this is pretty above average. |
| Mutoid Man Bleeder |
| Neurosis Pain of Mind |
| Neurosis The Word As Law (Remastered) |
| Neurosis Sovereign |
| Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Carnage |
| No Note if this is the future then I'm in the dark |
| Norma Jean The Anti Mother |
| O'Brother Disillusion |
| O'Brother Endless Light |
| O'Brother Audiotree Live |
| O'Brother Audiotree Live (Session #2) |
| O'Brother Audiotree Live (Session #3) |
| Oathbreaker Rheia |
| Old Man Gloom The Ape of God I |
| Oso Oso Basking in the glow |
| Pelican Nighttime Stories |
| I haven?t thought their last few efforts were necessarily bad, but this is a return to form that I never anticipated. |
| Phoebe Bridgers Punisher |
| Planning for Burial Below the House |
| God this is great. It?s sloppy, but somehow that?s endearing. |
| Portrayal of Guilt Let Pain Be Your Guide |
| Portrayal of Guilt Portrayal of Guilt |
| Pusha T DAYTONA |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Rebuker Familiar Stranger |
| Royal Coda Royal Coda |
| Royal Coda Compassion |
| I think this is a huge step up from their solid yet forgettable debut. The opening track is fire. |
| Russian Circles Blood Year |
| Secret Band LP2 |
| Self Defense Family Performative Guilt |
| Sharon Van Etten Remind Me Tomorrow |
| Shell of a Shell Away Team |
| Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve |
| SUMAC The Deal |
| Sun Kil Moon Among the Leaves |
| Taylor Swift Folklore |
| The Acacia Strain It Comes in Waves |
| The Black Keys El Camino |
| The Black Queen Infinite Games |
| Right now I don?t like this quite as much as their first release, but I?ve only given it one listen. Time will tell how this grows on me. |
| The Body No One Deserves Happiness |
| The Body I’ve Seen All I Need To See |
| The Contortionist Language |
| The Drowned God Moonbearer |
| The Moth Gatherer Esoteric Oppression |
| Neurosis worship done well. This is an above average post metal record for sure, but it takes no steps to innovate. |
| The National I Am Easy to Find |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania |
| The Weeknd After Hours |
| The Wonder Years No Closer to Heaven |
| Thom Yorke Anima |
| Thou Magus |
| A powerful listen that demands to be paid attention to. 4/5 is due to sludge not being my favorite, but I think this has the merits of perfection if this is your cup of tea. |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| Thrice Palms |
| Thrice Horizons/East |
| Tides of Man Every Nothing |
| Tides of Man somehow managed to make a fresh sounding post rock album in 2018. |
| Tigers Jaw I Won't Care How You Remember Me |
| Tiny Fractures Tiny Fractures |
| Touche Amore 10 Years / 1000 Shows: Live at... |
| Touche Amore/La Dispute Searching for a Pulse/The Worth of the World |
| Turnstile Turnstile Love Connection |
| Tyler, the Creator Call Me If You Get Lost |
| Vein.fm Errorzone |
| Vi Som Alskade Varandra Sa Mycket Det Onda. Det Goda. Det Vackra. Det Fula. |
| We Lost the Sea Triumph and Disaster |
| Wilco Ode to Joy |
| Yashira Fail To Be |
| Yautja The Lurch |
| Zao Pyrrhic Victory |
| Zao The Funeral of God |
| Zao The Well-Intentioned Virus |
| Zao Decoding Transmissions From The Möbius Strip |
| What other bands are releasing some of their best music in their third decade of existence? |
| Zeal and Ardor Stranger Fruit |
